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Luke Emmet luke.emmet at gmail.com
Thu May 14 16:55:56 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` Hello all Just recently joined your email list after lurking for a while (via HN). I like the look of gemini, hopefully it can hit a sweet spot of simple hypertext without the baggage of the full web infrastructure. I think gemini is interesting. And I particularly have enjoyed reading the discussion about text formatting and bullets... no, seriously. I'm interested in user interfaces and cognitive aspects of hypertext among other things. My question is really about how we can support cognitive aspects of user navigation through gemini-space. I understand and largely endorse the reasons for the simple text based protocol and format. However at the moment, browsing gemini-space is a very homogenous experience (each page looks the same as others). So it is not so clear to the user whose page you are on. On the wider web, there is a stronger notion of place, which has become very brand heavy and each website is a graphic masterpiece in its own right. There is a "cost" to that clearly. Is there a simple and gemini-friendly way for us to (optionally!) convey this sense of place. For example, to set a simple global favicon or background colour for pages on a certain site. It could help with user's task of navigation and understanding exactly where they are. I know there are lots of CLI junkies around here, so maybe this hasn't been a priority so far. I'm not proposing anything heavy or like the www, but I feel there could be some simple sweet spot here to be investigated. Best wishes - Luke